May 14, Ideas Have Consequences.

The aim of our charge is love, 1 Timothy 1-5.

Victor Frankl was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps

of Auschwitz and Dachau during the Second World War.

As a Jewish professor of neurology and psychiatry,

he became world-renowned for his book, Man's Search for Meaning,

which sold over 8 million copies.

In it, he unfolds the essence of his philosophy

that came to being called logo therapy,

namely, that the most fundamental human motive

is to find meaning in life.

He observed in the horrors of the concentration camps

that man can endure almost any how of life if he has a why.

But the quote that stirred me recently was this,

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz,

Treblinka, and Maidenik were ultimately prepared,

not in some ministry or other in Berlin,

but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls

of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

In other words, ideas have consequences,

consequences that bless or destroy.

People's behavior, good and bad, does not come out of nowhere.

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